It is all the world to me,--what she and Everett do with themselves; and what she may do in this matter of marriage is of infinitely greater importance than anything that can befall him.

If he makes a mistake, it may be put right.

But with a woman's marrying--, vestigia nulla retrorsum.

She has put off all her old bonds and taken new ones, which must be her bonds for life.

Feeling this very strongly, and disliking this man greatly,--disliking him, that is to say, in the view of this close relation,--I have felt myself to be justified in so far opposing my child by the use of a high hand.